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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

theatre the 0rner evening for the first
time. He sat in the last row of seats
of the balcony. and when he looked
through the glasses was so astonished
at the apparent nearness of the stage
that he started back and fell down the
stairway.
Farmers on the islands opposite
Whatcom. w. I. complain, saws the
ReUeitte, that deer are so numerous as
to constitute a pest, and their orchards
and grain fields can only be protected
by high picket fences. Quail are also
becoming too numerous. Orcas island
is especially we'll stocked with these
little game birds.
In the interests of MANY persons the
New I DIRK San repeats the statement of
the Somerville Journal that, on account
of the fun made of the many slippers
that clergymen used to receive from
appreciative maidens it's lucky
preacher nowadays who gets single
pair. Young women can now govern
themselves accordingly.
At a recent meeting in Alexandria.
Va, of the Inter-Seminary Missionary
alliance Mr.. Wilder of the Union
Theological seminary and Mr.. Forman
of Princeton said that they had can
vass of the Summaries and colleges of
the United States and in them found
1900 men who expected to be foreign
missionaries. Of these $50 are in
Oberlin.
At Columbus j. G. Eberhart had the
bodies of his wife's parents removed to
another graveyard, when the skeleton
of Mrs. Hill, the mother. was found
almost turned over in the coffin. one of
the limbs drawn up, and the position
of the arms changed. giving rise to the
suspicion that she had been buried in a
trance. The body was inferred nearly
twenty-five years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29
A Brides Jewelry.

& solitaire diamond ring in slender,
delicate setting is no longer the only
choice for engagement rings, as those
with coiored stones are now favored,
especially when associated with dia-
monds, as sapphire or a ruby beside
a diamond and two smaller brilllants
on either side. When the lady gives
her lover betrothal ring it has a sin
ole stone set ''fush"-sunken in the
gold in gypsy fashion. The wedding
ring, of purest gold, is plain and incon-
spicuous.
Lovers no longer believe pearls are
tears for a bride, as grooms' wedding
gifts are now quite as often pearls as
diamonds, consisting Of a pearl neck
lace or one festooned strand or from
two to six or eight strands, which may
lie fiat or may be coiled like a rope;
pearl earrings complete the parure,
and may be either screws or drops,
with small diamond on top. If the
groom prefers to give diamond ear
rings, they should be solitaires Of not
more than three or four carats the
pair if they are drops, and if they are
screws. weighing not over two carats
the pair. Large diamonds are for ell
derby women-for dowagers, not for
brides
Bracelets given to the bride by the
groom are slender and flexible, set
with diamonds alone, or else pearls
with diamonds. Instead of the cres-
cent or star of diamonds, q diamond
sun is a new brooch given brides for
fastening lace of the corsage or the
bridal veil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29
The Drive-WeIl Patent Case.

The Supreme Court of the United
States in it's recent decision 'sholds
that the fact now made to appear for
the first time in the driven-well litiga-
ton that the invention was used in
public at Cortland, n. Y, by others
than Green more than two years be-
fore application for patent was made
is fact which is fatal to the patents
validity. The decree of the Circuit
Court in favor of the alleged infringer
Hovey is affirmed"
Here are some of the facts in regard
TO the case:
L. That Green was not the original
inventor of said Improvement.
2. The said Improvement or invep-
ton had been used in the United States
for more than two years before the
application for Green's patent.
3. The said invention was patented
prior to the supposed invention OF
Green.
AS specifications in proof that Green
was not the original inventor, and
that drivewells were in public use be-
fore Green's supposed invention, the
following facts are cited:
That in 1858 Charles Daugherty
drove such well in Newark, O.
That in 1854 Edward Anderson
drove such well at the fair grounds
at Newark, o.
That in 1858 such well was driven
on Main street in Newcomerstown,
Tuscarawas county, O.
That prior to 1851 such well was
driven in front of q tavern in Lancas-
ter, O.
That in 1857 or 1853 such we'll was
driven at distillery in Lockville,
Fairfield county, O.
That in 1916 such well was driven
at a paper-mill in Columbus, O.
That in 1854 such well was driven
in a street at Newark, O.
That in 1854, 1860, and 1861, such
wells were driven on the west side of
the public square in Newark, O.
That in 1861 such we'll was driven
on the lot of George w. Philips, in
Newark, 0.
That in 1855 such well was driven
on the farm of one Caldwell, in Della
ware county, Ohio.
That in 1859 such a well was driven
by Ambos & Co. in machine-shop in
Columbus, O.
That in 1852 many such wells were
driven in the Town of Stockton, Cal.
That in 1862 or earlier such we'll
was driven in front of William Ram
seys store, in Belle Centre, O.
That in 1862 or earlier such we'll
was driven in front of the Logan
House in Bellefontaine, O.
That in 1861 such we'll was driven
in the streets of Pittsburg, Pa.
That in 1856, and 1856, and 1858,
and 1860 George Factor drove such
wells in public places in Coshocton, o.
That in 1917 one Harrington drove
such a well in Cattaraugus, county,
New York.
That the Doth day of November,
1910, patent was issued to one Ebe-
nezer Rice ''for an invention and pro-
cess which was substantially and ma
terially the same as that which is de-
scribed in the original letters patent
and reissued patent issued to said
Green"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

apart, and are in exact checks. Her
people certainly deserve much for their
wonderful industry, and nature has
been very lavish in her favors. The
waters have boundless supply of fish.
Fish and rice may be said to be the
food of the people, and yet the bounti-
full ocean not only supplies her share
of the food. but supplies also large
amount of the manure which enriches
the soil to produce SO abundantly.
Fish for this purpose are carried to
quite long distances into the interior.
Chicago Mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

Near the close of 1885 there died in
| New York city citizen of that place,
| who left to his children a fortune esti-
mated at S1S2, 900, 900, besides making
number of minor requests 1t will
help us TO form an idea of the magni-
tude OF this sum if we consider that 1T
| would have sufficed to give a Christ
| mas present of S140 TO every inhabi-
tant of the city, or at the rate of 800
to every family of five persons. sun
posing the. population at that time to
have been 100000. A political COM
mittee of one hundred, appointed in
the same city in October last. com
prised eight members whose estimated
wealth reached an aggregate of some
what more than $500, 600, 600. and at
least two of the most colossal fortunes
were unrepresented in this number.
Estates rising into the tens of millions
are to be found in various other cities.
and, taking the country through, one.
might designate Twenty-Five persons
whose united wealth, according to
current estimates, is not less than two
thirds of billion dollars. or about
per cent. of the total wealth of the
United States, supposing this to have
increased even 90 per cent. since the
census of 1880. Were all the property
in the country held in equally large
amounts, the whole would barely
suffice for $500 propretors; or, sup
posing these to have families averag-
ing four persons each besides them
selves, it would supply population
trfe larger than that of the little town
of Youkers.
There are no authentic statistics
showing the distribution of property
among different portions of our people.
but whatever the facts may be as to
the comparative diffusion of such
wealth as is held by the classes outside
the circle of the extremely rich, it will
hardly be disputed that the latter now
hold a much larger proportion of the
total wealth OF the country than was
held by a like percentage of the peo-
pie twenty-five or thirty years ago, for
the proofs that this is the case lie
upon the surface and thrust themselves
upon general observation. Moreover,
| see no reason to believe that the
tendency to increasing accumulation
at the upper end of the possessorv
o(tllC Hcio 0OiCHCli Vi 10 approaching 1IS
limit. A great fortune, with ordinarily
careful management possesses an enor-
nous power of accretion. Even when
invested in good securities, at very
moderate rate of interest, fortune
that rises into the millions affords
ample means of making yearly adj
ditions to principal. If invested in
real estate in any Of our growing cities,
it yields increasing income from decade
to decade as the land advances in
value, putting it in the power of the
owner to lay aside an increasing sur
plus; while, in the hands OF q shrewd
speculator, not prescriptions in his
dealings, its power of increase may be
still greater. In January, 1880, the
New York Commercial AdUertiSer re-
ported the rumored additions during
the preceding year to ten or twelve of
1.-the great fortunes identified with
Wall street" at $50, Forum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29
A Salt Monopoly.

In Italy, salt and tobacco are gov
eminent monopol1es, and the person
who sells them has to display the royal
arms over the door, and is obliged to
sell postage stamps and stamped con-
tract paper.
The salt monopoly is very hard on
the people. The salt comes from the
government works in Sardinia, and is
sold for export at one centesimo or
kilo, while the Italians had to pay
siXty-six centesimi for the same
amount. SO much was said of the
hard effect of this tax on the people,
of the increase of scrofula, pelagra,
and such terrible scourges, that about
year ago the government reduced
the price of salt to forty-four centimes
a kilo. 1t is needless to say that salt
smuggling is a regular business. The
Swiss buy it for one centesimo kilo,
load it on the mems backs and send
them on weary tramp over the
mountains to carry it back to Italy.
But the salt dealers in Italy can only
BUY a certain amount of salt at time
and their stores are liable to be visited
and weighed at any moment by the
custom officers,-and then woe be to
the man who has more salt than he
has bought! In the country keepers
of cattle are permitted to buy from
the government certain kind of
coarse salt, but they must have GER
tificate showing how many animals
they have to care for. The peasants
often boil and evaporate this salt for
family use, but if they are caught at
this illicit sitting heavy fines and i'm
prisonmeEts await them. -Marie Coz
saldi, ia Good Housekeeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29
California Dogberries.

a Justice of the Peace who resides
something less than fifty miles from
San Jose, and who also holds the hon
orable and lucrative Office of notary
public, transacted couple of little
jobs in his notarial capacity the other
day which entitle him to especial men,
ton. The first was to take the ac-
acknowledgements of his wife to her sig
nature to deed. He certified under
his official seal that he examined her
separate and apart from her hus-
band" etc. This was pretty good,
but the following day he eclipsed the
record by officially certifying an ac-
knowled cement of his own signature
to a mortgage. This take. the shine
off of the Santa Clara clergyman who
some years ago performed his own
marriage ceremony. The Justice OF
the Peace who committed a man for
.sthe crime of insanity" must look out
for his laurels. Jose Kercurg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29
"Old January"

Ira Jcnree, the veteran gambler who
died of old age and general debility at
the Gedney House on Monday, says the
New York Tribune, was known to the
sporting fraternity throughout the
Union as "Old January" He began
his career as gambler about 1854,
previous to which he was card writer
at the St Nicholas Hotel. His first
experience as the proprietor of a
gambling-house was at Broadway and
Fulton streets. His partner was Ed
ward Kline, who died years ago leav-
ing a fortune of 100000. ''Old Jan
uary" amassed snug sum here and
afterward opened an establishment at
No. 573 Broadway, which was extern
sively patronized by southern lovers
of faro. Later he opened game at
No. Barclay street, which fOurished
for a long time. He was also inter-
ested in house in Twenty-eight
street.
In the course of his gambling career
he made and lost six or seven fortunes.
At one time his wealth was estimated
at 100000. He was over 20, and died
almost destitute. Many gamblers of
this city knew him when he was
''high roller" and more than one
helped him when he was actually in
need of a meal and place to sleep.
He leaves a wife.
"Old January swore by the code of
honor, yet his notoriety was gained by
a desperate shift which the most UNI
scrupulous gambler of to-day would
scarcely have the courage to try. The
old man often told the story on him
self and the late John Morissey
youched for its truthfulness.
1t was the winning of fortune on
the wager of a lozenge that made him
famous among his kind. He had
risked and lost his last dollar at Nor
rissey & Dancers combination game
in Broadway, near Bond street, and
the dealer was waiting to go on with
the play.
81 was lost for bit, stOld January"
used to say in telling the story. land
was about to shell out for home when
something like an inspiration came to
me. While fumbling in my pocket /
found lozenge. I pulled it out in
thoughtless kind of a way, and when
my eye lit on it [ saw that it looked
llhG 81 w Wplo
/ laid the lozenge on card and cop
pered it. The dealer thought it was
all right and the game went on. Luck
was my way; / won, and the dealer
showed dollar check to me across
the table. I wagered the check and
won again, and when left the table [
had 5000. Next day it grew to S.
900, and before the end of the week it
was $40, 000-every dollar won on the
wager of that lozenge."
When asked if he was nervous while
the lozenge was doing duty as a check,
he said:
s.It was the greatest trial of my life,
| think. Excitement and dread of
losing made me perspire and tremble
all over. If | had lost my reputation
might have suffered seriously, you
see."
The old gambler had no respect for
the value of money. Dollars we're
mere playthings to him, and he
wagered fortune with as much indif-
ference as an amateur wagers beans.
He gambled with one foot in the grave.
Though i'll and almost destitute he
visited his old haunts until two weeks
before his death, ''bucking the tiger
with his last cent. He paid his debts
with scrupulous proIhptness. At the
Gedney House, where he breathed his
last, he did not owe q dollar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

Miss Ethel Sprague, daughter of
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, who will
soon begin her dramatic career, is a
handsome woman just Is years of age.
She,is above medium height, of dark
complexion, with hair of deep chest
nut hue She has a broad, intelligent
forehead, and brilliant hazel eyes.
Her teeth are strikingly handsome.
Her figure is we'll rounded and SYM
metrical. She does not aim to become
a star at once, but will take subordi-
nate position in some standard conf
pany and work her way up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29
Buffalo Bill and Albert Edward.

Colonel Cody, otherwise Buffalo Bill,
owns to be worth 100000, and he
says that his partner, Salisbury, is
worth half million. Regarding the
Prince of Wales. Colonel Cody said:
.sThe Prince has been very kind to me.
He is a good man. He is kind, thought
full and a good friend. If he likes a
man he sticks to him. He is man of
whom you can ask favor. sent
word to him the other day of my plans
of going to Manchester, and he wrote
letter to one of the most important
men there Endorsing me and my enter
tainment, and also sent dispatch.
He gave me, last summer, very
handsome pin. I do not wear it, be-
cause hold it too choice for that 1t
is in my safe now. 1t is in the form
of a horseshoe, with diamonds and
rubies alternating, and with the three
feathers of the Princes crest set inside
the shoe"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

The Grant memorial fund in New ,
York now amounts to 81, 800.
There are more vessels on the stocks
in Oregon, W. T., and Puget Sound
than in all New England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

Mrs. Frances Hodson Burnett has
endured poverty and won fame and
prosperity by hard work and patient
endurance. Distress in Lancanshire
caused by ou- civil war led her family
to emigrate 10 this country. She re-
ceivcd $50 for her first two stories.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

cart i. long, and time is feeting, ;"
remarked the young portrait-painter,
as he introduced his watch to the
pawn broker-P
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-12-29

Cleveland was the first and only pres
ident to visit the city of Memphis, Tenn.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-05-10

Der whether he used force in putting
her out Of the house or not; after they
reached Mr.. Peppers house be said
his wife had gone to Buffalo and
wouldn't be back for some time and
there the bed was large enough for
two; sh told him she didn't expect 10
get into house of that kind and
wanted her things and wanted to
leave and he threw her on the bed and
violated her person; she ssys she beg
ged him not TO mistrest her In that
way; after he went away she tried the
door but il was locked from the out
side and IN about ten minutes Nc
Gurk came In through the window;
they had no conversation but he
threw her on the bed and told her she
might as we'll have submitted to him
at the other house as this place; she
told him she was not woman OF that
kind and would not submit to his de-
sires, and he grabbed her round the
body and threw her on the bed and
continued TO struggle with her until
be succeeded in his design. The
witness testified substantially upon
the rect Of her cross-exsmin alton as
upon direct examination. Further
questions were asked the witness as to
whether she had carnal knowledge Of
soldiers whose names are not here
given, to all OF which questions she
answered in the negative. She was
also asked II she had not stated ip the
presence Of witnesses that she would
settle this matter with Pepper and
McGurk for $1,000, to which the wit
ness answered no.
Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-05-10
Cit kCHEs.
SOCIETIES.

A. o. H-Diyision No meets hrst a Id second
sundays Of each month.
X. Of H.-Meets htst and third Wednesdays at
7lSOp. M, 81 Odd Fellows Hall.
A. y. "A. M.-lellovslone Lodge, No, 26, d u
and tHird Wednesdays,
X. A. M.-SelowstOue Chapter. No. 5, second
and fourth Saturdays.
X. T.-Damaseus 0ommandery, second and
fourth Thursdays.
Il %. v. F.-Custer Lodge, No, 49, every
Monday Al their hall.
L. q. o. f-sentinal Eneampment, No. 6, nr,l
and third Friday.
X. Of P.-Crusader Lodge, No. Z, Thursday
evenings st Odd Fellows Hall.
G. X. Of A.-Miles City Branch, every sunday at
X. Of L.-First and third Fridays.
q. A. k.-U. 5. Grant Post, No. H. fret and
third Tuesdays
I. o. G. T,--StN Of the West, No. "a. every
Thursday evening,
St. Landry democrat., 1887-09-03

Queen did not neglect the fashions. Not
long before the attempted flight of the royal
family she is supplied with "a redng"te 81
pink and white satin. trimmed with sham
blonde, tulle and green satin ribbon. COM
menting upon this VI. de Reset observes
"Redingote is evidently corruption OF the
English riding coat; but the cut of the
garment is exactly that of an English peas
ants smocbfrock, tied in at the waist; and
it was put on 'either over the head or donned
from the feet upward. The existing red
ingote. which has been fashionable for the
last few years and IS highly popular
lust now. is a garment of silk plush
or CLOTH cut somewhat after the
manner of a genteman's tail-coat, richly
trimmed and adorned with very large put
tons: while in Paris the dress fashioned on
the lines of Marie Antoinette's re'tlngote IS
called either a robe chenliSe or mdtttot-
Jersey For moment, at the Tuileries on
the Goth Of June. 1892 she had been forced
to wear shuddering. the bonnet rouge, White
the mob Shrieked, Down with Veto and his
wife. Down with the Austrian. Two
DAYS afterward she consoled herself by or
dering from Mdme. Elotfe host of tal-als.
including six of her favorite ttchus Ang'"'S;
Then came the incarceration of the royal
family in the Temple. When she was, re
moved to the Conciergerie the Queen had
two dresses black and white one, which
| she wore on alternate days. She had three
chemises fine enough in texture, andtrimmed
with lace, but dropping into rags from
over-use, They gave her clean shit
every ten days; meanwhile girl called
Rault was almost incessantly occupied IN
mending the linen, the shoes, and the stock
ings ofthe captive. This girl was the daughter
OF the concierge Of the prison, and pitied with
infinite compassion that most miserable i:
woman in the dungeon, discrowned, dis
graced. patched and dirty. The girl Bauit
preserved the Queens tatters, which We're
begged from the prisoner piece by piece by
furtive royalists. The rutfian ga0lers had
torn from her the golden watch and the two I'VE,
diamond rings which she had brought with
her to the gaol; but they allowed her to
keep her wedding-rng, and she cont tn a to
secrete in her bosom a miniature of the dau,
phin in little bag made from a ca@ary kid
glove which the child had worn. She had
also kept large corking pin, and with this
she scratched on the whitewashed walls OF
her cell, side by side with scriptural texts
minute schedules f the items in her daily
diminishing wardrobe. These were the last
of Marie Antoinette's milliner's bills"